@benroyce So what does a moderate believe, that people should have a moderate amount of rights, a moderate amount of freedom, a moderate amount of dignity, a moderate amount of a decent life ?

before moving with her husband Vincent Clark to their East Hampton summer home & then to Sarasota, Florida. In 1999, the National Technical Association recognized Daly as one of the top 50 women in STEM. She was devoted to playing the flute, gardening & her dogs; when her cancer made flute playing difficult, she learned the guitar. She died in 2003, at the age of 82, in New York City.https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/978691118🧵5/5

@ashleyyrain It immediately reverses the narrative in such a simple statement. Love it!

@mekkaokereke Of course, online services are now ready to reintroduce racism via surveillance pricing.(The article doesn't mention racism as such, but I fully expect racism to be a factor here.)https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/24/price-discrimination/

@ashleyyrain yes

@CelloMomOnCars @mekkaokereke @le_bleu I am in both groups: cycling is both my main form of transportation and my primary hobby. I used to race bikes, but now I go grocery shopping. Participation in both these cycling worlds is not so uncommon, I suspect. Truly they do have different problems.

@xankarn excellent article, thank you.

Without the racism, Black kids do as well in school as everyone else.As a reminder, all Nigerian school kids can not only do algebra and basic statistics by 7th grade, they can convert numbers from decimal to binary and hexadecimal, setting a good foundation for a computer science education later.I can improve academic performance in a school district, as measured by performance above baseline on standardized tests, just by:1) Offering free meals to all students 2) increasing the numbers of Black men teachers3) removing "School Resource Officers"https://www.nctq.org/research-insights/black-teachers-help-their-white-colleagues-ability-to-teach-black-students-but-at-what-cost/Because all 3 of these things focus on *reducing racism*.If I were a white supremacist race scientist who truly believed that Black kids were not as smart as white kids? Then out of curiousity, I would want to see the playing field leveled, so that I could see the difference without confounders.But that would be disappointing. Because as you remove the racism, the difference in academic performance fades to nothing.‍️

The fate of our basic freedoms(more like privileges lately) around the globe in 2026 is directly linked to OUR FAILURES TO STOP the ongoing genocide in #Palestine perpetrated by the number one “halal” butcher in the world , always hiding under the skirt of false accusations of antisemitism, backed by our criminal Western political/economic/media/technocratic elites #STOPGENOCIDE #NEVERAGAIN ️#FRANCESCAALBANESE@democracy @politics #socialmedia #mastodon #fediverse #resistance #genocide

Democracy in Chains. A few critical readings (books) permit more nuanced understanding of our contemporary social, economic, and political morass.https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113437776461706493Highly relevant to that Little Rock Nine news posthttps://mastodon.social/@persagen/116036244615446995is Nancy MacLean's superb / scholarly Democracy in Chains, which details white conservative backlash to the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_Chains